Christchurch Mansion

Christchurch Mansion is a fine Tudor building set in an ancient and beautiful park close to the centre of Ipswich. With historic room settings, outstanding paintings and furniture, and also the modern Wolsey Art Gallery with changing contemporary exhibitions, it is one of the most important visitor attractions in East Anglia.

Artists through the centuries have been inspired by East Anglia and the Suffolk landscape. Christchurch Mansion holds a wide collection of oil paintings, water-colours, drawings and prints by Suffolk artists from the 17th century to the present day and includes the most important works outside London of Suffolk-born artists Thomas Gainsborough and John Constable. Other artists include George Frost, Tom and Edward Smythe, John Moore, Thomas Churchyard, Alfred Munnings, F G Cotman and Philip Wilson Steer.